Peanut Thief
We love to feed our birds
It gives us so much pleasure
To watch our little feather friends
Partaking at their leisure
But I’m less than keen on rooks –
They take an awful lot of food
To feed their large voracious brood
They’re a bunch of big black crooks
But what I see up in my tree
Is furry and not feathered
He is dangling nimbly upside down
Where the peanut ball is tethered
He’s cheeky and so very wary
Neat, alert and most astute
He is feathered not – distinctly hairy
I can’t help but find him rather cute.
His beady eye glints in the gloom
The sheltering canopy beneath
His tail is curled up in a plume
My squirrel is a peanut thief!
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